Lacock Abbey
May 17. 1873
My Dear Sir
I believe that I have to thank you for a copy of the Daily Telegraph which I received the other day containing Mr Smith’s letter with the translation of two valuable inscriptions.
I am very glad that it is intended to place Norris’s bust in the Town hall of Taunton and glad to see your name on the Committee.
I have been reading M. Lenormant’s pamphlet on the Chaldæan Deluge just published, in which he justly praises Mr Smith’s discoveries. It is written in a pleasant flowing French style and contains a good deal of information <and?> judicious remark.
If you will kindly inform me what is Mr Lenormants address at Paris, I will send him a copy of my Legend of Ishtar as the Council of our society have allowed me to distribute some, before the publication of our Transactions. Could they be renderd quarterly, it would be a step in the right direction.
Yours very Truly
H. F. Talbot